Bank technology

Fidelity National Information Services Inc. said Thursday that its strong fourth-quarter results were due, in part, to a product line the company says is not vulnerable to the economic turbulence that has slammed so many banking companies.

The French point of sale terminal company Ingenico SA on Thursday withdrew its offer to buy its U.S. rival Hypercom Corp., after the latter's decision to carry out its deal to buy another company.

Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. is installing payment reconciliation software from Fiserv Inc.

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council published new guidelines for secure payment devices and streamlined the assessment questionnaire small merchants must fill out to evaluate their network security.

Citigroup Inc., which has been testing a system that lets customers send each other money through mobile phones, plans to connect the system to its checking accounts.

Catherine Palmieri is no longer the managing director of Citibank.com.

The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC is planning to link its SVPCO image exchange network with the OnWe clearing network operated by LendingTools.com Inc. of Wichita.

The French point of sale terminal vendor Ingenico SA has challenged the terms of a confidentiality agreement proposed by Hypercom Corp., the Phoenix company Ingenico is trying to buy.

Nacha, the electronic payments association, hopes to be ready to invite banks by April 1 to participate in its Deposited Check Truncation project for clearing checks over the automated clearing house network, despite questions about whether the project is necessary.

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Nacha, the electronic payments association, said its voting members approved an amendment to its operating rules that will require the originators of automated clearing house transactions to be identified.

The Phoenix point of sale terminal maker Hypercom Corp. said Monday it is considering an acquisition offer from a French rival, Ingenico SA.

Wesabe Inc. has upgraded its account aggregation service by asking users to trust it with their passwords.

The banking software vendor Fundtech Ltd. has moved into the corporate payments market by purchasing the U.K. electronic invoicing company Accountis Ltd.

ACI Worldwide Inc. is entering the market for mobile cash management services.

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Two financial services technology companies, Fiserv Inc. and Jack Henry & Associates, reported improved revenue in the quarter that ended Dec. 31.

DALLAS — To persuade bankers to accelerate the adoption of check imaging, the Federal Reserve Board has announced several price cuts for its electronic payment services and plans to drop some services for handling paper items.